It's really exciting. I think all of this work culminating back to last summer it was a charge of the board and students and staff and everybody in the school community to look at these one to one devices and student devices just in general across the board and so we took that charge and it's been a great process working and getting feedback from all over the district and beyond and so it's great to kind of land here. I'm going to talk a little bit through here at the very beginning just to give you a little bit of background on the proposal and then we'll go in a little bit deeper as we go throughout the proposal itself so K-5 we are recommending that Apple iPad would be the device for that just as a little bit of background our K-2 already utilizes iPads and they match the number of kids so it's an iPad is available for every student that would be in every class. They sit in carts that exist in classrooms and are utilized as needed so really the K-2 component of this doesn't vastly change. A lot of these devices really are on cycle already anyway and so some of these devices would be being cycled regardless of the fact so that is the K-2 component. Not much would be changing there.

We've also Nina talked about this. We've sought input from students particularly the principal's advisory committee and they were really integral in helping us really think through what tools not only what the tools are but the ways that we could be using the tools more purposefully within the classroom and one of the things that I think was really fun and Nina and I talked about this but what was really fun for me was to watch the students interacting with these devices and thinking about the possibilities of things that could happen with them that just haven't been able to happen with the fleet that we currently had. We went to the teaching and learning advisory council. Stacey reported back on this. We talked through or was Chris at that meeting and really about soliciting some input from the teaching and learning advisory council about from a parent lens what is important for us to be considering and thinking about. Some of that, the bread crumbs of those conversations are going to be evident in work that we're continuing to do that we know we need to do. One of the most sort of overt pieces was the us making some pretty concrete decisions about when we would send our kids home and also helping parents to understand when we make that decision why would we be sending them home and for what purpose. So having some really clear guidelines about what that would look like.

One of the most sort of overt pieces was the us making some pretty concrete decisions about when we would send our kids home and also helping parents to understand when we make that decision why would we be sending them home and for what purpose. So having some really clear guidelines about what that would look like. We felt like that was really valuable input that is leading some of our work actually through the end of this year and then Luke has worked with his counterparts in other districts to really get a sense of where other districts are thinking of going with their fleet and how does it integrate with teaching and learning? All right. Well, good evening. I just thought to myself as I was sitting in the back I was like I don't know how I drew this card but I get to start on the tada moment which is kind of fun. It's super exciting, right? So I don't know how I drew that card but it is. It's really exciting. I think all of this work culminating back to last summer it was a charge of the board and students and staff and everybody in the school community to look at these one to one devices and student devices just in general across the board and so we took that charge and it's been a great process working and getting feedback from all over the district and beyond and so it's great to kind of land here.

A lot of these devices really are on cycle already anyway and so some of these devices would be being cycled regardless of the fact so that is the K-2 component. Not much would be changing there. When we got feedback it really the feedback came back that it was the right device for what they were using it for and it was a great tool for them to use and being able to kind of work with kids to do some of that discovery and things like that but also there are some other components that we'll talk about here in a minute. Three through five feedback came back pretty across the board. Creation of things and doing some of that work really became evidence in this group. We also saw that our third grade teachers talked a lot about the fact that there was that transition time that we were having to reteach students in third grade to a brand new device. There was some loss of time and a little bit of frustration trying to get through so we really just heard that consistency would really be helpful in this case. Six through eight. One thing I will say about the feedback from six through eight it was universal that Chromebooks were not it and so it became very evident very quickly hearing from students even at the middle school that they were looking to be able to do more and have more opportunities.

Six through eight. One thing I will say about the feedback from six through eight it was universal that Chromebooks were not it and so it became very evident very quickly hearing from students even at the middle school that they were looking to be able to do more and have more opportunities. Things like the front facing camera and beyond which we'll talk about here in a minute as well. Nine through 12. This is the fun one for me because this was one that our students really kind of pushed some thinking when we got together with them. Our students are awesome about that. They were able to give us some insight that we really even in So it really challenged our thinking to be okay let's find the right device for the students that meet all of the needs so we really felt like the iPad by itself wasn't going to meet the need and so the iPad Air was chosen as a more professional device. In fact the chipset that has now been released that the students would be getting should that be chosen this evening was actually the most expensive actually had the most of the MacBooks in the district and so it gives a little more space, more professional case and we still achieve a lot of the things that we were hearing. Mobility, the weight of the devices. We wanted to achieve that.